[Wylug-help] Debian package confusion upgrade vs dist-upgrade

[Simon Brown]

* Felix Ulrich-Oltean (linux at felixu.com) wrote:
> Can anyone help me work out how I may have misled dpkg into thinking I
> wanted all that stuff, or why it wants me to have it?  And how can I
> just upgrade blender for example if I want to - why is it "held back"?

if you just want to update $PACKAGE 
apt-get install $PACKAGE 
will do the trick. If the new version has unsatisfied dependancies it
will also ask to install them.

Simon

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Simon Brown